Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Hanafin, John P
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Obituary of John P. HANAFIN, Coles County, Illinois
Name of Deceased: John P. HANAFIN
Name of Newspaper: Mattoon Journal-Gazette
Date of Newspaper: 24 June 1974
LITCHFIELD NEWSPAPER EDITOR DIES
Litchfield, Ill.
John P. Hanafin, editor and publisher of the Litchfield
News Herald since 1965, died today, nearly five weeks
after suffering a heart attack.
Hanafin, 62, collapsed at his desk May 21.
Born April 6, 1912 in Elgin, Hanafin was the son of the
then manager-publisher of the Elgin Daily Courier. He
married Eleanor M. Freeman of Ogden in 1940 and later
left for Europe and North Africa where he served in Army
Intelligence. He once was captured and escaped from a
German prisoner of war compound, walking from behind
German lines to safety.
He returned to work at the Herald, which his family had
owned since 1928, and took over its management when his
father died 20 years later.
He and his wife had seven children and two grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were not complete.
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